--- title: Genesis 48:1 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Be… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.' And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Who acts: it, one, father, Joseph. 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And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. **Who acts:** it, one, father, Joseph · **What happens:** come, pass, say, be, take · **To what, where:** Joseph, two sons · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 48:1 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, one, father, Joseph), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:GEN:1576 # text = And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.' And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 csubj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 17 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 25 And and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Manasseh Manasseh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | it | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | | | | after this things | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one | | Joseph | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to joseph=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | thy father | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | past | Joseph | | Joseph's two sons | | | with him *= he* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיְהִ֗י אַחֲרֵי֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְיוֹסֵ֔ף הִנֵּ֥ה אָבִ֖יךָ חֹלֶ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֞ח אֶת־שְׁנֵ֤י בָנָיו֙ עִמּ֔וֹ אֶת־מְנַשֶּׁ֖ה וְאֶת־אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ [Genesis 48:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1576` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Genesis 47:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1575/) - next →: [Genesis 48:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1577/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 48:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.1/)